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MarsBonfire -> RE: For those that voted for our latest President.. (8/16/2009 8:13:15 AM)
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- Ongoing occupation of Iraq (obviously, Merc feels we should have pulled out overnight, which is odd, since the GOP folk were all screaming about "cut and run" at the time... but it seems they can't get as frothy at the mouth about a slow, reasonable pullout.)
- Escalation in Afghanistan (As Obama promised, as a platform plank during the election. Redeploy the troops to fight those who actually attacked us, not continue to occupy someone's soverign nation we had to make up lies about to justify invading.)
- Unemployment up (As was predicted during the last year and a half of the Bush Presidency. Amazingly, the rate has been kept to below double digits, when the GOP was gibbering about 12% to 14% by now.)
- Another $787 Billion going to corporate failures (as opposed to letting the US auto industry fail, dragging the rest of the economy down with it, like Cpt. Ahab strapped to the whale.)
- Home foreclosures continuing and increasing in some areas (Yup. The deregulation of the mortgage lending industry by Bush really fucked us all over, fer sure! Too bad Obama doesn't have a magic wand to make it all go away. Instead, the home loan industry will [and should] be held accountable for it's own shit storm.)
- Prices of houses, and with it personal equity down (see above. Although, as the economy recovers, so will prices of individual homes.)
- Polarizing politics (Ah! OF course! Obama is the one supporting the teabaggers, the death eaters, the birthers... or, do you suppose the GOP and special interests, in an attempt to "bring the President down" are more responsible for the tone? Seems to me that Obama's been bending over backwards to get things moving in a bipartisan way... but the Republicans are only interested in "getting Obama" rather than doing what's good for the country.)
- GITMO still open for business (And slated for shutdown in 2011, after the last of the 230 "enemy combatants" are moved into the US justice system, rather than being in the official US gulag.)
- More Financial Institution Failure MORE FAILURE (Yup. Imagine the US economy as a school bus balanced on the edge of a cliff. The folks who are hanging onto the front bumper, end up losing their grip, and they fall to their deaths... but without their weight dragging the bus over, everyone at the back of the bus is safer. I guess they shouldn't have gotten into the "ghost derivative" game, huh?)
- City Finances on the critic list. CHICAGO CLOSED (Funny how it's always a "states rights" problem, until they run out of money... then they go crying to the Federal Government.)
From a position of having a filibuster proof Congress he's a bigger failure, thus far, than AIG, GM, and the other executives whose bonuses his policies facilitated.
(Here we agree. Obama's attempts at courting the smouldering remains of the Republican party are pathetic, and they are keeping us from repairing the damage they inflicted. My prediction for the coming year: the mid term elections will force the Dems to hold the GOP accountable for their USA-maiming actions. This "bipartisan" blither will stop, and the GOP will continue to become more radical, and even more of an inconsequential minority. They will become the (even more) "crazy" party. In the end the only support they will have is the NRA, and insane doctor-murdering anti-abortionists.)
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